INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIAN VEGETABLE PRODUCTS. 189 



COMPOSITiE. 



1. Brachyglottis repanda, Forst, 

 1. B. rangiora.* 



" On a search for the poisonous principle of." W. Skey, 

 Trans. N.Z. Inst. xiv. 400. 



GENTIANE^. 



*1. Erythroea rentanrium, Pers. Ferment oil of. Biichner, 

 Rej)ert. liii. 299 ; Gmelin xiv. 405. 



MYRSINE^. 



1. Coryjiocarpus lavigata, Forst. 



" Preliminary notice on the isolation of the bitter substance of 

 the nut of the Karaka tree." W. Skey, Chem. cVews. 

 xxvii. 190; Trans. N'. Z. Inst. iv. 316. See also Trans. 

 N.Z. Int>t. ii. 155. 



APOCVNE.E. 



* Alyxia Eeimvardtii, Blume, from Java. A camphor from the 



inner surface of the bark of. Gmelin, xiv. 337. 



* A. aromatica, in Watts' Diet., 1. 113. 



(I cannot trace this specific name). 



Alstonia constricta, F. v. M. ("Bitter-bark.") 



1. Alkaloids of, Palm. Jahresb. 1863, 615 ; Wittstein's Viertel. 



Jahrcsh. f. pr. Pharm. xii. 161 ; Gmelin, xviii. 214. ; 

 Watts' Diet., vi. 101. 



2. Alkaloids of, Oberlin and Schlagdenhautien. Pliarm. Journ. 



[3] x. 1059-60 ; Journ. Chem. Soc. xxxviii. 127. 



3. Alkaloids of, O. Hesse. Annalen der Gliemie. ccv. 360-371 ; 



Journ. Chem. Soc. xl. 623 ; Pharm. Journ. [3] xi.775. 



4. Alkaloids of, 0. Hesse. Dents. Chem. Ges. Bev. xi. 1546, and 



1753-4 ; Journ. Chem. Soc. xxxvi. 269, also Beriehte, 

 xi. 2234-5 ; Journ. Chem. Soc. xxxvi. 332. 



5. Alkaloid of, (Alstonin). Wittstein, p. 330. 



6. See also Pliarm. Journ. [3] ix. 1059. 



7. Alstonine (Chlorogenine) Merck's Bulletin i. (5). 1888; 



Journ. Soc. Chem. Itid. vii. 866. 



* Alstonia spectahilis. O. Hesse, Annalen der Chemie, cciii., 



170; Pharm. Journ. [3] xi. 369. 

 *1. Alstonia scholaris, R. Br. (" Dita" bark.) J. Jobst and 

 O. Hesse, Annalen der Chemie, clxxviii. 49-79 ; Journ. 

 Chem. Soc. xxix. 276; Pharm. Jotirn. [3] vi. 142; Watts 

 Diet., Adii. (1) 688. 

 [An exhaustive research on a bark, which, although indigenous 

 in Queensland, is best known in India and the Archipelago, 

 It has been examined by many other chemists, tlie 

 following investigation being the most impoi-tant : — 



* This name is not in the Handbook of N.Z. Flora of Hooker. 



